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That a nation's statuary will reflect beliefs and attitudes that are no longer current or congenial hardly needs arguing. In most instances, it doesn't at all imply a continuing reverence.

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If something or someone is being banned, I want to be among the first to know about it.

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If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person carrying a well-thumbed copy of 'Middlemarch' in his back pocket?

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Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single idea, belief system, religious faith or party.

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When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism.

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You can imprison but you can't enslave a man who argues with his books.

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A system of thought that accepts no inconsistencies is a frightful thing.

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Whoever believes he knows why everything is as it is has hold of nothing.

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There's no law that says you have to be consistent in your preferences.

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It was reading Hamlet that ruined the concept of authenticity for me, not because Hamlet lacked existentialist credentials himself - indeed, as an earlier discontented Dane, he could be said to have laid the ground for Kierkegaard - but because the line 'to thine own self be true' was spoken by that humourless old ninny, Polonius.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: August 25th, 1942

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